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Four days. No cravings. No feelings of deprivation. Hunger that comes on slowly & gently, like I’ve always imagined it is for other people.

No, I’m not on drugs. (Phentermine makes me nutso and I always get sick from lack of sleep. Xenical/Alli do nothing for me. Have never tried Meridia as it seems pretty much the same as phentermine, just more expensive.)

I’ve just been eating, lots, and really really well. Not weighing or measuring my food. Just eating lots of low-fat, legume-based dishes, and lots of vegetables and fruit. Lovely, soothing, comforting carbs — Pasta (yes, pasta!), cornbread, bran cereal, oatmeal, sweet potatoes. And wickedly good blackberry-cabernet (yes, it has wine in it) and mango sorbets for an evening treat. A small piece of exquisite dark chocolate every now and then (since when could I eat a SMALL piece of ANY kind of chocolate???!!!).

I keep pinching myself. This seems too good to be true! Surely it will end?!

Maybe my doctor wasn’t crazy after all when he said to “just give it 3 weeks, you’ll find you don’t miss the foods that right now you think you can’t live without” [for me, that was yogurt, skim milk, fish, chicken, cookies, cake, butter, chocolate candy, diet soda…].